my living/dining room

Hey everybody, since I’ve been busy plugging away at my swoon quilt, there hasn’t been much other sewing going on. So I thought it would be fun to finally take pictures of my living and dining room area. I bought a new couch and chair and rug from west elm last summer and have been slowly getting things finished, so I thought it would be fun to share it today. I still have some colorful pillows to make for the couch and chair, but other than that I think it’s pretty much done. Let me know if you have any questions and I’ll answer them in the comments. We live in a 1 1/2 story house built in 1951, so I feel really lucky because it has tons of character, as well as really drafty windows. Here we go:

This is a cool cabinet that I found last fall at an estate sale, perfect for my collection of cathrineholm and kaj franck goodies.

Have you ever used that window film that you stretch across the frames and then tighten up with a hair dryer? My brother lives in a beautiful old house in Seattle, and that’s what they used on their windows until they were able to add storm windows to the outside. It really helped, and didn’t look bad at all.

You have awesome light in there! Can I ask about the rug? I think high-pile white rugs look so gorgeous on wood floors, but with 2 little kids and a black cat my man is skeptical, to put it lightly. What has your experience been like?

Love the light, the neatness (wow), and really would love to steal your Catherineholm pieces. Great collection! Thanks for inviting me over. oh, and thanks for including the blog on your Inspire page. That is so nice!

What a lovely home you have ~ I’d love to see what it looks like from the outside too. The cabinet is something I’ve been looking for forever, guess I’ve got to keep looking!Thanks for sharing your home.

for a lot of you, no it doesn’t hardly ever look this clean, but it is probably the least used space in our house, we have our art/play room and kitchen that we spend most of our time in, which are usually pretty darn messy!

Krista, thanks for the tip!

Amanda – the rug has been pretty easy to maintain. It does shed like crazy (but is kind of letting up now). I heard a good quality wool rug won’t shed very much, oh well, this one fit my price range.

Regan – I love my white eiffel eames style chairs, hope to get the other 4 once I have enough saved up!

Val – yes, it’s the henry sofa. Other than it taking over 15 weeks to arrive after I ordered it, it’s been pretty great. I’d say it’s a one movie couch though, but maybe when we break it in more it’ll get cozier. The performance velvet seems to clean up like a dream though!

You have such a cute style! I keep trying to make my house more modern…and failing. Deep down I must be traditional.

Love your new rug! You should scooch your couch and rug up so that they’re partly on it. They look scared of it right now. :0…and your living room is so big, you totally don’t need everything against the walls. 🙂